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As soon as summer hits, Zinnias start to open up and show off their bright, bold colors. And with them comes a steady stream of butterflies: swallowtails, monarchs, painted ladies, and much more. Zinnias are one of the easiest annual wildflowers to grow from seed and one of our favorite plants for a… Read More →

Plant Information

Kiwi Gold is one of the ever blooming raspberries which bloom summer and fall. Known for its extremely sweet flavor, this hybrid was developed in New Zealand, but is now a favorite worldwide.

Choose a spot in the garden with good drainage in full sun. Extremely hardy plants, once established will produce a crop for many years beginning in the second year. p>

PLANTING DIRECTIONS:1. Plant canes 2 feet apart creating hedgerows that are 10 feet apart. Dig a hole two times the width of the root ball in good loose garden soil with a pH of 5.8 to 6.5 amending if necessary.
2. Remove plant from packaging and lightly loosen the bottom of the root ball to release the roots as you set it in place in the hole.
3. Keep the top of the root ball even with soil surface and fill in around the roots. Lightly tamp dirt around your newly planted raspberries.
4. Water well and add additional soil if necessary and water again.
5. Keep weed-free, watered when necessary and pruned regularly to maintain a quality crop. Fertilizer may be applies in early spring before sprouting and again in late May.

Planting & Care

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With summer raspberries infested with Spotted Wing Drosophila, I was delighted to find ripening Kiwi Gold raspberries in October, and up until mid-November here in Duluth, Minnesota, with no sign of the fruit fly damage....it's too cold now for the fruit fly but not for ripening the Kiwi Gold raspberry. The first time I got fruit on these plants, it was Halloween a few years back. Now, with this long stretch of warm weather (50s and 60s F) I have been harvesting ripening berries until mid-November! I had some fruit on these plants earlier in the summer (that was on last year's canes), but the new canes which produce at the tip of the plant were quite loaded with fruit in October/November, and were bug free.

I Planted these this spring and i've already had a summer harvest on some plants and one is still putting out berries on the summer crop while the new primocanes are getting ready to ripen soon, nice to have overlapping harvests between summer and fall harvests, yet while still putting out new suckers these are a nice addition to my other red berry patch....wonderful taste like pineapple or apricot ..a real tropical flavor i enjoy because of the difference from my red varieties.......highly recommend these raspberry bushes from American Meadows !

Never planted berries before and likely did not plant this one in the right place with the right soil ammendments. However, this plant, unlike some of the other berries I planted did survive but is only several inches tall after a season.

I had a nice patch of Kiwi Gold raspberries several years ago and am thrilled to be able to start a patch of them again in a new location. I have grown the more common varieties of both red and yellow (Heritage, Fall Gold, etc.) but none compared to these. Vines were easy to maintain and took a lot of abuse- I was a beginning gardener with my first batch. I didn't have any issues at all with diseases. Berries were very sweet, not too seedy, true raspberry flavor. Produced reliably for years. I've since read that we don't find yellows in the grocery store because the higher sugar content makes them soft and difficult to ship well. I mixed yellow and red berries for freezer jam and it was scrumptious.

Once I recieved my Kiwi Gold raspberry I was happy to get them in the ground in late April, since then they have been growing more and more got new bulbs and berry now just wanting on them to turn yellow. The bugs try to bother them but not as much at all. I believe these will make good in any gardners ,raspberry garden.And yes I recommend it.

I have been very impressed by the Kiwi Gold Raspberry. The fall crop of berries produces right up until the first hard frost. Care is minimal, just the basic pruning, fertilizing and weeding. The only complaint I have heard is that it doesn't look like a raspberry but it sure tastes like one and is very sweet.